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Boston Pride ID’s Gay Cop At Scene

One of the Boston cops shown in one of yesterday’s most-widely publicized photos is openly gay police officer Javier Pagan, says Boston Pride on their Facebook page: The Police Officer to the far right is a good friend of Boston Pride! He is the Boston Police Gay Liaison to the community Javier Pagan.  One of the First Responders who was …

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One Million Moms Vs One Million Moms

One Million Moms says they have forced a separate group, One Million Moms For Gun Control, to change their name.  And the AFA didn’t even have to sue them. There recently has been some confusion in the media and on the Internet concerning One Million Moms, a conservative, Christian group affiliated with American Family Association since 2001. We, One Million …

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Obama: This Was An Act Of Terrorism

In yesterday’s first press conference on the Boston bombings, President Obama did not use the word “terrorism” and wingnut sites went predictably ballistic. Today the president did say the word and praised Boston’s first responders: “If you want to know who we are, what America is, how we respond to evil – this is it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid.

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Right Wing Sites Post Facebook Page Of Alleged Boston “Person Of Interest,” Commenters Claim He Is Gay Or Bisexual

Multiple right wing sites such as Free Republic, Townhall, and Gateway Pundit are today posting information from the Facebook page of a 20 year-old Saudi national whom they claim is being “guarded by federal agents” in a Boston hospital as a “person of interest” in the Boston bombings.  The FBI and other law enforcement agencies continue to say that they …

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London Marathon: We Will Go On

Organizers for the London Marathon vow that this weekend’s race will go on as scheduled but that attendees and participants should prepare for extremely tight security measures. Also being planned is heightened security for Wednesday’s funeral for Margaret Thatcher. “In light of the awful attacks in Boston, they will require extra vigilance from everyone involved and it is also to …

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Mayor Tom Menino: Boston Will Overcome

This morning Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Boston Mayor Tom Menino held a joint press conference with the FBI to announce continued security measures and to declare that “Boston will overcome” this disaster. Only two improvised explosive devices or IEDs, both of which exploded, were discovered yesterday at the scene of the Boston Marathon, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick said Tuesday. …

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HomoQuotable – Sir Ian McKellan

“Lest we forget, this nasty, brutish and short measure of the third Thatcher administration, was designed to slander homosexuality, by prohibiting state schools from discussing positively gay people and our ‘pretended family relations.’ Opposition to Section 28 galvanised a new generation of activists who joined with long-time campaigners for equality. Stonewall UK was founded to repeal Section 28 and pluck …

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